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- PKI and VPNs: Enabling Security in an Increasingly Networked World
- This paper explores PKI technology, building a PKI, the business case for PKI. It also examines VPNs as the killer application for PKI. The IPSec protocol provides many of these same security features for a VPN connection at the network level. However, it is through the use of a PKI...
- Tags: VPN, IPSec Protocol, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
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- PKI Policy Note
- This PKI Note provides general information about PKI policy, the role that policy plays in a PKI and how that policy applies to both traditional and PKI-enabled business environments. It also addresses the documentation required to support a PKI policy, what is specified in a PKI policy, how a...
- Tags: Policy, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2001-03-01
- VeriSign Managed PKI Service for the Federal Bridge Certification Authority
- VeriSign, the leading provider of Intelligent Infrastructure Services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, offers government agencies a comprehensive and cost-effective solution that meets FBCA technical-interoperability requirements for PKI-based security. The VeriSign Managed PKI Service, which has been certified by the GSA as technically interoperable with the FBCA, lets government...
- Tags: VeriSign Inc., PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security, Network Security, Networking
- White papers 2005-06-06
- PKI: Ten Years Later
- This paper examines the history and evolution of so-called Public Key Infrastructure PKI. It compares the original definition of PKI with a broader and more flexible definition that better reflects the variety of implementation philosophies available today. This current definition shows how the understanding of this technology has matured (although...
- Tags: PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2007-12-01
- PKI Interoperability by an Independent, Trusted Validation Authority
- Interoperability between PKIs Public Key Infrastructure is a major issue in several electronic commerce scenarios. This paper suggests an approach based on a trust model where an independent Validation Authority VA replaces Certification Authorities CA as the trust anchor for the receiver of a PKI certificate (the Relying Party, RP)....
- Tags: Interoperability, Det Norske Veritas, RP, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2006-02-02
- An Introduction to PKI
- This guide provides the reader with a basic introduction to key terms and concepts used in a PKI including Certificates, Keys and Authorities. It mentions the features and services used by the PKI and the techniques involved in public key cryptography.
- Tags: ArticSoft Ltd., PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
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- True Fabric Interoperability for Today's SANs
- Brocade currently has three solutions to enable fabric interoperability: direct E_Port interoperability, FCR interoperability, and Access Gateway interoperability. Each of these solutions has excellent use cases and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Brocade is further developing these interoperability techniques and anticipates broadening support for various configurations. Brocade also...
- Tags: Interoperability, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., SAN
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Ensuring Your Company's Online Presence: Strategic Solutions for Corporate DNS Management and System Availability
- This white paper is focused on quantifying the value of Public Key Infrastructure PKI to the enterprise. To have positive ROI, a PKI application must either increase enterprise revenues or reduce enterprise costs. However, typical papers and articles, even those with both of the words "ROI" and "PKI" in their...
- Tags: DNS, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2005-06-10
- Questions to ask vendors before embarking on PKI
- Charged with implementing PKI? Here's a checklist of questions experts say you should ask before committing to a vendor.The truth is, very few people understand public key infrastructure PKI. Even IT professionals have problems evaluating what’s important and what’s not when it comes to PKI.“The problem with PKI is that...
- Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Network security, SECURITY, Loraine Lawson, PKI
- Technical articles 2000-09-25
- The Anatomy of PKI
- Computer security experts call Public Key Infrastructure PKI the "panacea" for secure, trusted e-business. What exactly is PKI? And who needs it?PKI is a catchall term for the infrastructure required to manage digital certificates and highly secure encryption. It encompasses a great deal: industry standards, software and hardware systems, business...
- Tags: PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 1999-12-02
- Web Services & PKI: The How and Why
- Machine to Machine Web services security standards depend on PKI. This paper looks at how PKI can be provisioned and managed easily across Web services and Service Oriented Architectures.
- Tags: Web, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Network Security, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking
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- Distributed Directory in Support of Large Scale PKI
- This paper has given a brief illustration of how distributed directory is used to support PKI, and the requirements that PKI places onto such a service. In general, use of directory servers that support both LDAP and X.500, such as Isode's M-Vault are the best way to build such a...
- Tags: Isode, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, LDAP, Directory Services, Security, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Deploying PKI Inside Microsoft
- This white paper describes the deployment and use of the PKI features of Windows server and client products into the production environment at Microsoft. Certificate Services provides customizable services for managing certificates in a PKI infrastructure, such as when creating a CA that receives certificate requests, verifying both the information...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2005-02-01
- The Business Benefit of HSPD-12
- This white paper has provided a fairly exhaustive comparison of the TCO of VeriSign Managed PKI versus the main alternative: insourcing a software-based PKI system. Unlike many other discussions of TCO, all numerical assumptions are included in the paper. As a result, customers can check the assumptions against their internal...
- Tags: Benefit, VeriSign Inc., HSPD-12, VeriSign Managed PKI Service, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Roi/Tco, Security, Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2005-11-08
- Role Sharing in Password-Enabled PKI
- Password-enabled PKI schemes simplify the management of end users' private keys by storing them in password-protected form on a centralized on-line server. Under such schemes an end user needs only remember his password and can access his private key from anywhere the centralized server is available. Existing password-enabled PKI schemes...
- Tags: Password, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2007-12-01
- PKI Basics - A Technical Perspective
- As the world of commerce becomes increasingly dependent on the electronic storage, accessibility, and delivery of valuable information, the question of maintaining a level of trust in all those business processes, which is commensurate with the levels well established in the brick and mortar world, becomes critical. All of the...
- Tags: OASIS, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Basic Elements of a PKI
- Assymetric encryption allows users to identify themselves over an electronic network, to communicate privately, and to sign electronic documents. These functions form the basis for e-commerce, and a system that exploits this technology is known as a Public Key Infrastructure PKI. .
- Tags: SmartTrust, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2000-12-08
- VeriSign Shared Service Provider (SSP) Certification Practice Statement
- The US Government has identified the need for Shared Service Providers SSP to provide Public Key Infrastructure PKI services for Federal employees, contractors and other affiliated individuals requiring PKI credentials for access to Federal systems. VeriSign is an approved SSP operating under a Memorandum of Agreement MOA signed by the...
- Tags: VeriSign Inc., U.S. Government, VeriSign Shared Service Providers Public Key Infrastructure, PKI, Security
- White papers 2007-02-05
- A Scalable PKI for a National Grid Service
- This paper describes work to expand the PKI for the UK National Grid Service NGS, to integrate it with site authentication and improve usability. This work is complementary to the UK Shibboleth deployment. As the NGS grows to support wider and larger scientific communities, the paper investigate how to improve...
- Tags: National Grid Service Support Centre, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2007-02-01
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